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May 11, 2008 at 7:27 PM

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Michael
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For those of you with Facebook accounts, Caleb has set up a fan page for Papertank.

Become a fan, help spread the word, and get important news and updates through Facebook! (There's also an old Facebook group that I made for The Shadow Sun a while back, if you feel like joining that too.)

As of today, we also have a new Last.fm group for our music lovers, so if you have a Last.fm account, make sure you join us next time you're on the site! I've also created a deviantART group for our artists and anyone else who has an account there. If you have any other suggestions for groups on other websites, post them here, or simply create one yourself and then let us know : )

May 14, 2008 at 12:03 PM

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Justin
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If you do, we'll extend your warranty, of love. We love you. *hugglez*

May 14, 2008 at 9:55 PM

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Chaotictheory
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I already get that

June 27, 2008 at 10:13 PM

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Michael
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Bumping for great justice.

(We seem to be be getting a bit more traffic recently, and a lot of people have joined since I posted this thread, so I want to make sure people are informed of our Facebook page.)

June 27, 2008 at 10:49 PM

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gabrielle
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What about Flickr?

Dunno, I'm just diametrically opposed to deviantART.

June 29, 2008 at 1:11 PM

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Michael
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gabrielle said:

What about Flickr?

Haha. I don't have an account there. Should I make one?

June 29, 2008 at 3:13 PM

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gabrielle
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Meh I'm just being difficult.

I don't mean to insult anyone here who does use deviantART, but I find there are quite a few more serious artists on Flickr as opposed to dA. Both have amateurs and mediocre hobbyists, but dA seems to have more of them... I think Flickr has a bit more potential for people who are serious about the arts (writing included) and who don't think that any sort of typographical diarrhea can count as "good" writing.

That aside, I don't know the demographic here but I doubt there are many with Flickr accounts aside from myself. I don't get the vibe that people are interested seriously in visual arts...?

Edit: Ughh I just reread that and I hope I don't sound pompous, however I really don't know how else to describe it.

June 30, 2008 at 2:23 AM

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Flragnararch
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When I think deviantArt, I think pictures and painting and whatnot, not writing. Granted I've been their twice, and twice I only saw crappy art and never went back, but the whole reason people market is to attract a target audience. I fail to see how targeting people in visual arts would be the best use of time for a website catering to written works. Isn't flickr pictures too? I've never been...

I'll also go ahead and defend the other choices up their. Facebook is networking. A group page, as has easily been seen in the past through other people and their groups, is a great way to advertise the website.

Last.fm could be seen as, "why a musical art website?" kinda thing. I've already seen two or three (and possibly more out their) people posting their lyrics to songs in their heads. It's related to written works.

One final note, please don't market to Myspace. More like Emospace. No offense to the people that use Myspace, but all I've ever gotten out of it, besides some mediocre music (any good music I can easily get from other sources), is extreme-angel cleavage shots and twelve-to-fifteen year olds posting in centanses taht luk sumthin liek this lolz emoticon emoticon emoticon. And that was only in the first minute of use.

Not to mention the advertising spam from their banner ad people. You are not interested in my wang, we don't have related friends, I don't want to see your 'other site' with 'pictures too risky for myspace', I don't want to chat with teens my age (21 here), and other messages I know I'm leaving out.

/rant

June 30, 2008 at 11:54 AM

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Michael
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Flragnararch said:

cleavage shots

Most definitely not a bad thing.

But I know what you're saying. I don't use MySpace either. The site is just too damn ugly and difficult to use. I actually made an account once, but I never used it. I never even put anything on it because I couldn't figure out how to make my profile not look like a turd.

Also, I agree with many of the complaints directed toward deviantART. Although I have seen a lot of amazing photography on the site, it's often flooded with garbage, which is what happens when one website is open to hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of young teenagers. You can't be on the site for more than a minute without seeing some badly-drawn anime fan-art or badly-written video game fan-fiction. It is not, in my opinion, a serious artistic community... or at least, not at serious as I hope Papertank will be.

Even so, if Papertankers already have accounts there, we might as well start a group.

July 1, 2008 at 8:44 PM

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Justin
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Michael said:

Flragnararch said:

cleavage shots

which is what happens when one website is open to hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of young teenagers. You can't be on the site for more than a minute without seeing some badly-drawn anime fan-art or badly-written video game fan-fiction. It is not, in my opinion, a serious artistic community... or at least, not at serious as I hope Papertank will be.

Even so, if Papertankers already have accounts there, we might as well start a group.

We'll have to implement a young teenager filter.

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